Smash Mouth Will Eat Eggs for the Internet

I've seen pretty much every food dare you can imagine: men downing an entire bottle of vinegar, a tablespoon of chili pepper, a Dixie cup full of sprinkles (harder than it sounds), or the contents of a salt shaker — for nothing more than a lousy twenty bucks and the simple pride of having done it. Now Steve Harwell, the frontman of a '90s group you may or may not remember called Smash Mouth, has answered an Internet challenge to eat 24 eggs on camera in exchange for a big pile of cash being donated to St. Jude Children's Hospital. It all began as a not-mildly-patronizing dare issued by a blogger, until the Internet did its thing and now, well, Harwell's actually going to do it. It's still unclear how the eggs will be served, but it appears that he wants Guy Fieri to cook them (huh?).

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So, wait, 24 eggs, cooked any way, with no stated time limit? That doesn't sound like a big deal. In fact, that sounds more like Thor Hushovd's breakfast on a rest day. You want a real egg challenge? I give you Cool Hand Luke, in which Paul Newman takes on a prison dare to eat 50 hard-boiled eggs in one hour. Now there's a man. [via Eater National]

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